Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
British Lit and Cult at Uni of Hamburg | DACH Victorianist | Mobility Studies | the long 19th century
Entered 4th year on the PhD Text, Practice as Research (part-time) program at the University of Kent. Presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social at Liverpool University in July 2026: Gulliver in (Gul)liverpool on the Victorian Stage. #Gulliver #Victorian #theatre
Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
The new Bluesky account of the IVLS
Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Professional clinical psychology training delivered in an inclusive and supportive environment.
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. 🦌 Official account 🦌
Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Past Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Victorian literature & music history │
NEW coursebook: Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2025), co-edited with Katharine Ellis
asst. lecturer at Skidmore. Operator of this, a Vernon Lee fan account.
Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, and psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health and the body ∣ gender & masculinity ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & chronic pain (she/her)
UK
30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social
The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/them 🏳️⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
The University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education (CIE) supports staff to enhance student education through innovation.
“Re-orienting Assemblage Theory in Anglophone Literature and Culture”. Funded by @cienciagob.bsky.social
PI: @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social
https://literaryassemblage.com/
literaryassemblage@gmail.com
Painter and storyteller inspired by history, archaeology, and blending art with the past. efhoward.com. Here to follow likeminded people 😉🎨📜🏛️🖼️
TEFL
BA English Studies, MEd
Interested in stylistics, literary linguistics, women's writing (from the Victorians to the present), mental health and trauma
Knitter, crocheter, weaver
Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Research group in English at Loughborough University fascinated by 19th-20th century literature and culture. Lovers of all things weird, gothic, decadent and modernist: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/research/groups/cultural-currents/
writer + DPhil candidate @ Oxford, researching glasshouse culture and Victorian embodiment
(she/her)
Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
PhD student in English Literature at KU Leuven 🇬🇧📚🇧🇪
If it's dark and twisted, send it my way. Joy is important even in the bleakest of times - small joys too. Bad at rules. Grumpy old lady, but not old. Self-medicating with books.
Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Discussing all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative
https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/
Erudite, sorta. Left-wing New Englander (CT). Disdain for Vichy Democrats, Orange Satans and their lemmings. Congenital NY Mets fan (can't help it). Celtic Spirituality/Pantheist. GLP-1 pilgrimage. Wish I was a headlight on a north bound train.
Associate Professor of English at CSUCI | Victorianist | Linguist | First Gen | she/her
Lecturer in contemporary literature at Surrey University and host of the Queer Lit podcast. (they/she)
Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Assistant Professor of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University
PhD (London)
Victorian fiction, narrative theories, Marxism, history of the novel.
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
open to collaborations
🌐 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
Budding art historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Looking to move to the UK permanently soon, hopefully to pursue an MA in Historic Interiors & Decorative Arts. Also fond of British country houses and natural history. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Irish poet who lives in North Yorkshire. Teaches at University of Liverpool. Likes chess and rugby. https://www.johnredmond.co.uk/
Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
An independent academic publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 1985.
broadviewpress.com
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop
NO DMs (mutuals) | TerfsDNI
Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP)
UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Erstwhile Prof. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Research Manager @ the OU | PhD Graduate from Lboro English | Victorian & Modernist Women’s Writing
books, dark academia, cottagecore, autumn, aesthetic and everything beautiful to escape reality 🍂☕️🕯🕰🏛
- all photos are found on pinterest and are not mine -
Artist@Atmospheric Research Collective
https://www.atmospheric-collective.org, honorary visiting Professor, University of Westminster
BAVS Newsletter Editor | Researching Victorian science, altruism, and the novel.
https://19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centurylegacies
Professor in Comparative Literature, Mid Sweden University. Environmental arts & humanities; theatre history/historiography, society & politics. She/her. Own views.
My latest book, OA, here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54892-5
Irish Romanticism, Italy, the Byron-Shelley Circle, manuscripts, literary coteries.
https://irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/neh-fellows/elisa-cozzi/
academic| researching Scottish fiction, crime fiction and the Gothic
Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
Victorianist, lover of cats, art and aesthetics, foodie, sometime piano player, new Edmontonian.
[aka Sarah Marr]
intellectual flâneuse
studying: MA Contemporary Photography at Central Saint Martins
author: "All the Perverse Angels" (rep Felicity Bryan Assoc.)
MD Alternative National Treasure
hauntology, folk horror, electronic music, retrotech, art…
Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
Historian of nineteenth-century art with interests in Ruskin studies, Arsenal FC, and anarcho-syndicalism.
Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Literary Detective (newly minted PhD) @lboroenglish.bsky.social
I know a little bit about Marie Corelli, #19thcentury popular fiction and #genealogy
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/staff/joanna-turner/
www.petermorse.com.au
Grand Vizier | Consultant Sciartist
:: imaginative work for #science, #museums, #fulldome, #galleries
#digitalheritage #antarctica #sciviz #geophysics #glams #GIS #mediaart #ai #ml #unreal #b3d
Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Researcher @ Ca’ Foscari University of Venice | 19th-century Literature & Psychiatry | Fairy Tales, Deviance & Criminality | “Ogresses of Crime Narratives” out in 2025 with Cambridge UP
academic | into adaptations, crime fiction, and neo-Victorianism | QAQV group coordinator [qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl] | Changing Narratives conferences organiser [changingnarratives.weebly.com] | bad at social media
🦔🦔🦔☕️🍷Research: 19th-20th century literature and visual culture (painting, sculpture, photography) 研究(イギリス文学/視覚芸術、文化)&大学(非常勤) PhD
PhD student at Exeter. Alleged speciality: Victorian and gothic literature.
digital text studies / corpus linguistics / literature / language
Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
PhD Candidate @ Indiana University | transatlantic 19C media + nationalisms | explorer at heart
Managing Editor @victstudies.bsky.social
Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: drowning in grading 🫠😓
- miguelchavez.net
Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey | 📚 Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction | currently researching second-hand clothes and sustainability in 19C | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
Professor of Intersectional Humanities, Director of Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University 🇮🇪
18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.org
#VictorianLit | author, The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) | Editorial Advisory Board, Thomas Hardy Journal & Hardy Society Journal | She/her | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-060X
🏳️🌈 | Lecturer, University of Bristol | Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel (2021, CUP) http://ow.ly/laM150ErNZ0
Author of Women's Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre's Missionary Sisters; Researcher at Senate House Library, University of London
Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
| History #PhD Researcher (experiences of patients in the Sussex County Asylum 1890-1913) | #Librarian | Pagan Chaplain | Sussex Uni | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | Shāhmārān | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | FHEA | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
Poetry and Art. Passenger.
Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
